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An autopsy report released Friday says Joy Actress Naya Rivera raised her arm and called for help when she accidentally drowned while sailing with her 4-year-old son on a California lake in the US.
Once his mother helped him back into the boat, the boy “noticed that the deceased raised her arm in the air and yelled ‘help’,” says the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s report.
“The deceased then disappeared into the water.”
Authorities had previously said Rivera had accidentally drowned after putting the boy, Josey Hollis Dorsey, back in the boat on Lake Piru northwest of Los Angeles on July 8, but they did not mention that she screamed for help.
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Rivera “knew how to swim well,” the report says.
The man who rented the pontoon from her said she declined a life jacket, but put one on board anyway.
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An autopsy report released Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, says “Glee” actress Naya Rivera raised her arm and called for help when she accidentally drowned while sailing with her 4-year-old son in a California lake.
It revealed that Rivera, 33, had previous vertigo problems, had a recent sinus infection and had a small amount of prescription amphetamines in his system, but did not identify physical conditions or drugs as factors in his death.
Toxicology tests also showed that he had small therapeutic amounts of the anti-anxiety drug diazepam and the appetite suppressant phentermine in his system.
Josey, Rivera’s son with her ex-husband, actor Ryan Dorsey, was found sleeping alone in the drifting boat that afternoon.
Five days later, his body was found floating in an area of the lake that is about 0 meters deep.
The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office said it was likely trapped in thick vegetation underwater for several days before floating to the top.
Josey was immediately reunited with her father and other family members.
The day before his death, Rivera tweeted a photo of the two that read, “just the two of us.” In her memoirs, she called him “my greatest success, and I will never do better than him.”
Rivera’s death was the third of an important member of the cast of Joy, the Fox TV musical comedy that Rivera starred in from 2009 to 2015, playing a singing and dancing lesbian entertainer.
Rivera’s body was found seven years after his co-star Cory Monteith died at age 31 from a toxic mix of alcohol and heroin.
Another co-star, Mark Salling, who Rivera dated at one point, committed suicide in 2018 at age 35 after pleading guilty to child pornography charges.
